Furnace (Bad Zwischenahn)

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Municipality Bad Zwischenahn
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 9 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 8 m above sea level NN
Residents : 2724  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code : 26160
Area code : 0441

Ofen is a district of the Bad Zwischenahn municipality in Lower Saxony . The small town is located on the western city limits of Oldenburg .

history

Ofen was originally a peasantry in the rural community of Oldenburg and thus belonged to the house bailiwick of the Counts of Oldenburg . In 1897 the rural community was divided into the independent communities Eversten and Ohmstede , and Ofen became part of the Eversten community.

In 1924 Eversten was divided again and the eastern part of the community was incorporated into the city of Oldenburg. The rural part to the west, consisting of Ofen , Bloh , Friedrichsfehn , Heidkamp , Metjendorf , Ofenerfeld , Petersfehn and Wehnen , became an independent municipality of Ofen within the Oldenburg office .

The newly founded small rural community of Ofen suffered from financial weakness, especially as the economic framework conditions of the early 1920s were unfavorable. Therefore, with the aim of making administrative structures cheaper and simpler, the Oldenburg state government worked out an administrative reform, in the course of which the political community was dissolved on May 15, 1933. Ofen itself as well as Bloh, Petersfehn and Wehnen were incorporated into the Bad Zwischenahn community , while Metjendorf, Heidkamp and Ofenerfeld were added to the Wiefelstede community . Friedrichsfehn was incorporated into Edewecht . In 1948, Ofen tried to become independent again. This did not succeed, however, so that Ofen remained as a peasantry in the Bad Zwischenahn community.

The old high German word ouwa meant something like meadow or meadow. It is from him that the current name for the peasantry is derived, and over the centuries it has been spelled differently:

  • 1379 Oven (first mentioned in a document)
  • 1428 Ouven
  • 1643 Open

Evangelical parish of Ofen

Ofener Church

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Ofen was founded on May 1, 1901 as part of the division of the political rural community of Oldenburg. The parish council of the former parish of Oldenburg, which comprised both the city and the rural community, decided on December 7, 1897 to split it into the four independent parishes of Oldenburg , Ohmstede , Eversten and Ofen , with the municipality of Ofen being the northern part of the political community Eversten the localities Bloh, Metjendorf, Ofen, Ofenerfeld, Petersfehn and Wechloy was assigned and the parish Eversten the southern part of the political community.

The foundation stone of the Ofen church was laid on July 11, 1899, before the official establishment of the Ofen parish itself. The inauguration followed on May 17, 1901. The church was built in neo-Gothic style next to the cemetery, which was opened in 1847. The unusual-looking, "capped" church tower was not built until the 1930s, as the original church spire endangered the approach path of the nearby air base and it was therefore removed. The community center in Metjendorf was inaugurated on December 3, 1976. Services did not take place there until ten years later, the bell tower was built in 1991.

The parish remained unaffected by the dissolution of the political community of Ofen in 1933. It still exists today and has been part of the Oldenburg church district since its foundation , although it is located in Ammerland territory. The only change came into effect on January 1, 1970, when Petersfehn was removed from the community of Ofen by resolution of the regional synod of the Oldenburg Evangelical Church in May 1969 and merged with Friedrichsfehn and Kleefeld to form the new parish Friedrichsfehn / Petersfehn .

Infrastructure

traffic

bus

Ofen is connected by a city, regional and night bus line:

Highway

Ofen can be reached via the A 28 motorway exit Oldenburg-Wechloy . The place has no direct connection to the trunk road network.

Sports

Ofen has two sports halls and a sports club. The TuS furnace from 1949 celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1999. The autumn run has been held every year on October 3rd since 1992. Up to 1500 runners take part in this popular and street run on different routes.

Elementary school furnace

Elementary school oven with the inscription "400 years of school oven"

The school, run as a full half-day elementary school in the district of Ofen, was founded on December 3, 1593. The founding protocol of the oldest school in the community has been preserved. The first building of this school was built on the property opposite the current school.

With a permanent school building, Ofen had an advantage over the other localities, which at that time had to make do with circular schools . Circular schools were usually housed in a room in a larger farmhouse and changed their location from year to year.

On October 25, 1807, the foundation stone for the new school was laid. Despite the renovation in 1842, the school was already considered "derelict" again in 1883. The new school building, decided on February 25, 1902, was realized as a two-class school with a teacher's apartment on the other side of the street “An der Alten Dorfstraße” . The old school building was sold and converted into a village smithy in 1913.

Not long after the school was founded, the construction of a lightning rod was implemented in 1908 after the daughter of the then headmaster Schmidt was fatally struck by lightning at the entrance to the school.

The two-class lessons took place in sufficiently large classrooms until the end of the Second World War . After the occupation by Canadian tank soldiers, school lessons were interrupted because the soldiers moved into their quarters in the classrooms and in the teacher's apartment. After the resumption of classes on June 24, 1945 , the school had considerable space problems due to the increase in pupils from displaced persons. Before a two-room barrack was built next to the school in 1948, a room in the neighboring restaurant had to be rented in 1946 in order to be able to teach the 187 boys and girls at the time.

The elementary school of Ofen experienced a further significant increase in pupils on April 1, 1953, when the so-called Lettenlager , located in what is now the Westerholtsfelde district , was closed and the refugees taught there, mainly from Latvia and Lithuania , went to school in Ofen.

After the school hut was completely destroyed by a storm on May 17, 1955, the school was expanded in 1957. This expansion ended in 1971 with the construction of the gym.

The furnace elementary school was converted into a primary school in 1975. Grades 1–4 continued to be taught in Ofen, grades 5–13 went to the schools in Oldenburg, Bad Zwischenahn and Rostrup .

Village community center

In 2014, the “Friedrich-Hempen-Haus” meeting place was built on Alte Dorfstrasse. The hall can hold a good 100 people.

Personalities

  • Anne Plagemann , humanistic pedagogue, mathematician and biologist
  • Eva Högl , member of the German Bundestag , grew up in Ofen

literature

  • Karl Benke, Hellmuth Boelsen, Wilhelm Bruns, Heike Düselder, Gerd Fischer, Eilert Freese, Jürgen Günther, Michael Hansing, Klaus Harms, Wolfgang Hartung, Walter Helmerichs, Paul Hinrichs, Ulrich Hellweg, Günter König, Uwe Krüger, Günter Kühl, Axel Lüers , Bernhard Menke, Wilhelm Friedrich Meyer, Helmut Ottenjann, Christoph Reinders-Düselder, Karl Veit Riedel, Ilse-Jutta Sandstede, Wilhelm Sandstede, Gerd Schmidt-Möck, Carl-Heinz Schöfer, Peter Schulze, Gerd von Seggern, Erhard Steiner, Klaus Taux , Günther Wiechmann, Christian Wöbcken, Karl-Heinz Ziessow, Dieter Zoller, Dirk Zoller, Marianne Zoller: The Bad Zwischenahn community . People, history, landscape. Ed .: Municipality of Bad Zwischenahn. Friedrich Schmücker GmbH, Bad Zwischenahn 1994 (1062 pages; alternative title: Chronicle of the Bad Zwischenahn community on google-books ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual statistical report of the Bad Zwischenahn community as of December 31, 2019
  2. ↑ Georg Bredehorn: Evangelical Parish Eversten . In: Eversten: From 1200 to the 20th century . Isensee-Verlag, Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 3-89598-750-6 , p. 50 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Friedrich Meyer: The Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Oven . In: Community of Bad Zwischenahn (ed.): Chronicle of the community of Bad Zwischenahn . 1994, p. 547 ff .
  4. ↑ 35 years of a “house full of life”. In: NWZOnline.de. August 25, 2011, accessed February 7, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b Gerdes Reisen receives award from the ZVBN for regional bus services in the Ammerland district. Verkehrsverbund Bremen / Niedersachsen GmbH, accessed on September 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Laying of the foundation stone for Friedrich-Hempen-Haus , accessed on May 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ Högl member of the Bundestag from January 2009 , accessed on April 25, 2014.